Where your treasure is; Luke 12: 21-34

There is a dangerous tendency when coming across a passage of Scripture such as this one, to isolate these verses from it’s context.  It’s dangerous because when you do that, what you end up with is a flawed doctrine.  And a flawed doctrine is one that you cannot fully rely upon.  You can’t fully trust it.  It may sound good, it may seem true from a superficial reading, but when a real crisis hits your life that flawed doctrine isn’t going to hold water and it can cause shipwreck to your faith. A superficial view of this passage would suggest

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The Fruit of Hypocrisy, Luke 12: 13-21

The other night my wife and daughter and I were watching an old movie called “It could happen to you.”  It was the story of a guy who did not have the money for a tip at a restaurant and so he told the waitress that if he won the lottery he would give her half of what he won.  So as Hollywood would have it,  that night he finds out he did in fact win the lottery and he ends up having  this great debate with his wife who was not quite so honorable as he was about whether

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